Python : Getting Started

Raspberry Pi Foundation will at least supporting C, Perl and Python. However Python is official educational language that will be supported.

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to combine "remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

 There many tutorial involving Python and here are some basic tutorial to get you going. List compiled here not necessarily directly regarding coding Python on RasPi but rather dedicated to people who interested to start to learn Python from basic.

TheNewBoston provide the most in depth beginner-proof video tutorial on Python. However they use Windows 7 platform.

Liam Fraser's Youtube Channel is the among the first to provide tutorial for Python on RasPi.However he also use Virtual Machine(Virtualbox) within Windows 7 instead of RasPi unit.

Jason Jaseman put up simple lesson through *.PNG image file on SkyDrive that you can download.

You also can grab more information just by using keyword like "Python on ARM tutorial" but these are the 3 that I will be suggesting  for the time being.

How To Check and Verify SHA-1

Windows 7

Windows doesn’t have a built-in tool to check hashes, but Microsoft does provide one from their website.
Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier Utility
Once you download and extract the file (there’s no installation), open up a Command Prompt window. Navigate to where the file is, and then use the following command to check:

fciv.exe –sha1 C:\path\to\file.zip

Example:

fciv.exe –sha1 C:/download/raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img.gz

The SHA-1 digest is displayed as: SHA1 (full path to the file)= [checksum amount]

SHA1(/Users/myaccount/Documents/1024SecUpd2003-03-03.dmg) =2eb722f340d4e57aa79bb5422b94d556888cbf38 <<--compare this with SHA-1 provided by download site.

Mac OS X

1. Open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities).
2. Type the following at the Terminal prompt:

sha1 [full path to file]

Example:

sha1 /Users/myaccount/raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img.gz

The SHA-1 digest is displayed as: SHA1 (full path to the file)= [checksum amount]

SHA1(/Users/myaccount/Documents/1024SecUpd2003-03-03.dmg) =2eb722f340d4e57aa79bb5422b94d556888cbf38 <<--compare this with SHA-1 provided by download site.

Alternatively for Windows and Mac user, you can use tiny program called HashTab which does exactly the same with minimal effort from you side.

Linux

1. Open Terminal.
2. Type the following at the Terminal prompt:

sha1 [full path to file]

Example:

sha1 /Users/myaccount/raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img.gz

The SHA-1 digest is displayed as: SHA1 (full path to the file)= [checksum amount]

SHA1(/Users/myaccount/Documents/1024SecUpd2003-03-03.dmg) =2eb722f340d4e57aa79bb5422b94d556888cbf38 <<--compare this with SHA-1 provided by download site.